Cork star Conor Lehane facing injury layoff

Midleton’s hopes of regaining the Cork SHC title have received a blow with the news Cork star Conor Lehane is likely to miss the rest of the club’s campaign.

Lehane, the Cork club player of the year when the Magpies won a first county championship in 22 years in 2013, suffered the injury in a challenge game against Waterford side Tallow at the weekend.

An MRI scan showed he had sustained a grade 3 rupture of the rectus femoris, one of four muscles in his quadriceps. Early conservative estimates suggest he will spend at least 10 weeks on the sideline, effectively ruling him out of the remainder of the county championship.